Monthly Archives: August 2007
Vendors Offer Agile Support
WASHINGTON—The use of agile development methodologies is creeping into the enterprise, and vendors are lining up to provide tools and services to support it.
At...
The Visa Blink
The love-hate relationship that is the American retailer, bank and credit card marriage is nothing but complex.
There are few partners that ignite such wrath...
HP Profit Surges 29 percent
HP shattered expectations for the third quarter, reporting today a profit hike of 29 percent to $1.78 billion, or 66 cents a share, thanks...
IBM Bases New Lotus Notes, Domino 8 on Eclipse
Having absorbed feedback from the beta tests of more than 30,000 businesses over the last two years, IBM Aug. 16 formally launched Lotus Notes...
Mini Firewall Acts Big
Mistletoe Technologies SlimLine Security Appliance is a run-of-the-mill firewall appliance—with one big exception: Its tiny.A Gigabit-speed multifunction firewall, flow manager, data encrypter and/or antiDoS...
Yahoo Jazzes Up Local Search, AOL Revisits Truveo
Hoping to inspire some good faith after some poor financial earnings, Yahoo Aug. 15 revamped its Local search site supporting a host of new...
Visa Relaxes Retail Credit Card Security Threats
For more than a year, Visa has ominously warned large retailers that it would enforce a strict Sept. 30 deadline for many of the...
Email Exacerbates Workplace Stress
Working late again and wondering where the day went? Are you stressed and frustrated and can't seem to get a handle on your time?...
Windows Goes Xen, by Proxy
When Microsoft announced its plans to build a brand-new hypervisor into a future version of Windows Server, it seemed to me that a much...
Gbrowser in the Works?
I love it when old stories resurface like so many TV spin-offs and movie sequels. Rumors that Google is creating a Web browser are...